NOW Magazine
Musicians in Canada join the fight for climate justice
New groups like Music Declares Emergency and Climate Live are inspiring urgent climate action and a more sustainable music scene
By Richard Trapunski
Samuel Engelking
Moscow Apartment's Brighid Fry (left) and the Weather Station's Tamara Lindeman are two of the artists playing this week's Climate Live concert.
Brighid Fry has grown up in the climate movement.
A constant presence by the side of her mother Kim Fry, who worked for Greenpeace and other climate activist groups, she’s been going to climate protests since she was a baby.
“I remember being three or four and people would ask me ‘are you going to be a climate activist like your mom?’ And I’d be like, ‘no, I’m going to become a famous rock star. And then when I speak about climate stuff, people will listen,’” recalls the 18-year-old musician, who plays in the Toronto folk-rock duo Moscow Apartment with Pascale Padilla.